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Although professional football has uninterruptedly retained the two-platoon system since 1949, in 1953 the NCAA took the collegiate game back to the one-platoon system with new limited substitution rules, changes made ostensibly for financial and competitive reasons.
The substitution of absent players happened as early as the 1850s, for example from Eton College where the term emergencies is used. [5] Numerous references to players acting as a "substitute" occur in matches in the mid-1860s [ 6 ] where it is not indicated whether these were replacements of absent players or of players injured during the match.
The one-platoon system, also known as "iron man football", is a rule-driven substitution pattern in American football whereby the same players were expected to stay on the field for the entire game, playing both offense and defense as required. Players removed for a substitute were lost to their teams for the duration of the half (until 1932 ...
The NCAA football rules committee issued guidance Wednesday to close a loophole that allowed second-ranked Oregon to exploit an illegal substitution penalty late in its victory over Ohio State to ...
The NCAA issued a rules interpretation that will allow offenses to reset clock if 12 or more defenders participate in a play late in a half. NCAA changes rule, closes 12-player loophole Oregon ...
Following Oregon football's dramatic win over Ohio State, the NCAA announced a rules clarification involving 12 defenders on the field.
Free substitution or rolling substitution is a rule in some sports that allows players to enter and leave the game for other players many times during the course of a game, generally during a time-out or other break in live play; and for coaches to bring in and take out players an unlimited number of times.
Here is the NCAA's "redshirt" rule for college football 12.8.3.1.6 Exception: In football, a student-athlete representing a Division I institution may compete in up to four contests in a season ...